Word Meanings - MOTHERING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A rural custom in England, of visiting one's parents on Midlent Sunday, -- supposed to have been originally visiting the mother church to make offerings at the high altar.
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- CHURCHLINESS
Regard for the church. - RURALITY
1. The quality or state of being rural. 2. A rural place. "Leafy ruralities." Carlyle. - CHURCHLIKE
Befitting a church or a churchman; becoming to a clergyman. Shak. - ALTARAGE
1. The offerings made upon the altar, or to a church. 2. The profit which accrues to the priest, by reason of the altar, from the small tithes. Shipley. - MOTHER-OF-PEARL
The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl. - SUNDAY
The first day of the week, -- consecrated among Christians to rest from secular employments, and to religious worship; the Christian Sabbath; the Lord's Day. Advent Sunday, Low Sunday, Passion Sunday, etc. See under Advent, Low, etc. Syn. -- See - MOTHER'S DAY
A day appointed for the honor and uplift of motherhood by the loving remembrance of each person of his mother through the performance of some act of kindness, visit, tribute, or letter. The founder of the day is Anna Jarvis, of Philadelphia, who - ALTARIST
A chaplain. A vicar of a church. - VISITATION
The act of a naval commander who visits, or enters on board, a vessel belonging to another nation, for the purpose of ascertaining her character and object, but without claiming or exercising a right of searching the vessel. It is, however, usually - CHURCH
AS. circe, cyrice; akin to D. kerk, Icel. kirkja, Sw. kyrka, Dan. kirke, G. kirche, OHG. chirihha; all fr. Gr. ç'd4ra hero, Zend. çura 1. A building set apart for Christian worship. 2. A Jewish or heathen temple. Acts xix. 37. 3. A formally - CHURCHYARD
The ground adjoining a church, in which the dead are buried; a cemetery. Like graves in the holy churchyard. Shak. Syn. -- Burial place; burying ground; graveyard; necropolis; cemetery; God's acre. - CHURCH-BENCH
A seat in the porch of a church. Shak. - MOTHERING
A rural custom in England, of visiting one's parents on Midlent Sunday, -- supposed to have been originally visiting the mother church to make offerings at the high altar. - CHURCH MODES
The modes or scales used in ancient church music. See Gregorian. - MOTHERLESS
Destitute of a mother; having lost a mother; as, motherless children. - CUSTOM
Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. See Usage, and Prescription. Note: Usage is a fact. Custom is a law. There can be no custom without usage, though there may be usage without - MOTHER-OF-THYME
An aromatic plant ; -- called also wild thyme. - RURALIZE
To render rural; to give a rural appearance to. - CHURCHSHIP
State of being a church. South. - CHURCHMANLY
Pertaining to, or becoming, a churchman. Milman. - ACCUSTOMARILY
Customarily. - SMOTHER
Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick - EQUICRURAL
Having equal legs or sides; isosceles. "Equicrural triangles." Sir T. Browne. - ABORIGINALLY
Primarily. - ACCUSTOMEDNESS
Habituation. Accustomedness to sin hardens the heart. Bp. Pearce. - UNMOTHERED
Deprived of a mother; motherless. - EEL-MOTHER
The eelpout. - SALTARELLO
A popular Italian dance in quick 3-4 or 6-8 time, running mostly in triplets, but with a hop step at the beginning of each measure. See Tarantella. - STEPMOTHER
The wife of one's father by a subsequent marriage.